I felt bored watching this show but I kept going on for FL

I absolutely loved the FL for her decisive and extroverted personality. She plays a strong and independent career woman who can, at times, be overwhelming like a whirlwind. I wasn't super into the ML but I appreciated his patient and considerate personality. Tbh, I found him a little bit boring and frustrating at times. However, the deal-breaker for this show wasn't the ML but the lack of plot which didn't allow the romance to progress properly. By the end of the show, I felt like their relationship was lukewarm at best and I no longer cared if they got together or not.

One of the main reasons I had trouble shipping them was that there was too much will-they-wont-they going on. They kissed around episode 8 (I think), but the next day, both ML and FL agreed that their hot make-out session was "just a mistake". After that, things started heating up between them, but the ML ghosted the FL and didn't reply to her texts because he felt guilty moving on so soon. His ex-girlfriend cheated on him, dumped him for not confessing his feelings, and then gave him a wedding invite just to hurt him. Yet, when his ex called him to a bar and said she wanted to get back together with him, he ditched FL and went to her. Even though he went to break things off once and for all, he shouldn't have ditched FL like that since he had already agreed to be her date at a wedding.

Meanwhile, FL has already seen the nasty side of her ex, Juhwan, after they broke up. Juhwan cheated on her, gaslit her, blamed her for his cheating, ruthlessly dumped her, fired her from her job after she had a meltdown and then avoided her like crazy. Even so, she wanted to get back with him until a certain point and clung to him desperately. How does that make any sense????? And then when Juhwan wanted her back she allowed him to remain in her life as "friends". This backfired because Juhwan sabotaged FL's relationship with ML and guilt-tripped ML into thinking he was taking advantage of FL's vulnerability.

There are so many things in kdramas that don't make any sense to me, and the main leads' slow-paced relationship and inability to communicate is one of them. Every-time they take one step forward, they take two-steps back and try to date their exes. It's like they don't remember what happened just a few episodes ago. They are never true to their words and keep contradicting what they said earlier. Also, ML is so emotionally constipated and frustrating. FL gives him so many signals that she likes him, but he never says it back and keeps playing with her feelings. He's always overthinking things and is easily manipulated by the exes.

As a result, by the start of the last episode, the main leads are still not together and neither one of them has confessed to the other. All this drama was really boring and reduced the quality of this show. I only started this show because I kept seeing its clips on Instagram reels, and I continued because I was hooked in the FL's story. I have to say that Yoo In Na did a superb role in her role, and she was so charismatic and expressive. However, the plot was so unsatisfying that I regret watching this show and I kind wish I had done something else instead.

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